Did you read the numbers? The volume growth requires a top down examination of everything, which is not going to be fast or easy to do. From 65 million to 7 billion inside a couple years is a ridiculous surge.
At its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday, the company announced that it is now seeing 7.4 billion commits per month. To put that into perspective, developers pushed 65 million monthly commits to the platform in 2024.
GitHub lets me create public and private repos.. with a free account.. how are they making money?! Why are they throwing hardware at this explosive growth of repos with LLMs?
Users spend tokens on DeepSeek, Claude, and others -> generate variations of projects uploaded to GitHub -> Microsoft (GitHub's owner) -> trains LLMs -> ends up with better models.
It's distillation at a higher level, most good programmers aren't going to commit garbage solutions; they'll push it to a git remote once they see it actually solves a problem they are trying to solve, and since the git commits and their messages are also AI generated, you've good visibility into the user's intention and resulting edits to the codebase.
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Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commit... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280770)
Users spend tokens on DeepSeek, Claude, and others -> generate variations of projects uploaded to GitHub -> Microsoft (GitHub's owner) -> trains LLMs -> ends up with better models.
It's distillation at a higher level, most good programmers aren't going to commit garbage solutions; they'll push it to a git remote once they see it actually solves a problem they are trying to solve, and since the git commits and their messages are also AI generated, you've good visibility into the user's intention and resulting edits to the codebase.